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• BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing: Beginner’s Guide
• Drupal 7 Social Networking
• Learning jQuery, 3rd Edition
• Spring Roo 1.1 Cookbook
• Microsoft Visual C# 2010: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming, 4th Edition
• Java Programming, 6th Edition

BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing: Beginner’s Guide Posted: 01 Oct 2011 04:59 AM PDT Book Description Wireless has become ubiquitous in today's world. The mobility and flexibility provided by it makes our lives more comfortable and productive. But this comes at a cost – Wireless technologies are inherently insecure and can be easily broken. BackTrack is a penetration testing and security auditing distribution that comes with a myriad of wireless networking tools used to simulate network attacks and detect security loopholes. Backtrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide will take you through the journey of becoming a Wireless hacker. You will learn various wireless testing methodologies taught using live examples, which you will implement throughout this book. The engaging practical sessions very gradually grow in complexity giving you enough time to ramp up before you get to advanced wireless attacks. This book will take you through the basic concepts in Wireless and creating a lab environment for your experiments to the business of different lab sessions in wireless security basics, slowly turn on the heat and move to more complicated scenarios, and finally end your journey by conducting bleeding edge wireless attacks in your lab. There are many interesting and new things that you will learn in this book – War Driving, WLAN packet sniffing, Network Scanning, Circumventing hidden SSIDs and MAC filters, bypassing Shared Authentication, Cracking WEP and WPA/WPA2 encryption, Access Point MAC spoofing, Rogue Devices, Evil Twins, Denial of Service attacks, Viral SSIDs, Honeypot and Hotspot attacks, Caffe Latte WEP Attack, Man-in-the-Middle attacks, Evading Wireless Intrusion Prevention systems and a bunch of other cutting edge wireless attacks. If you were ever curious about what wireless security and hacking was all about, then this book will get you started by providing you with the knowledge and practical know-how to become a wireless hacker. Hands-on practical guide with a step-by-step approach to help you get started immediately with Wireless Penetration Testing What you will learn from this book : Create a Wireless Lab for conducting experiments Monitor the air and sniff wireless packets Bypass WLAN authentication mechanism Crack WEP/WPA/WPA2 encryption mechanisms Break into a WLAN network using infrastructure flaws Break into a Wireless client such as a laptop Advanced attacks such as Man-in-the-Middle attacks and Evading WIPS Conduct wireless penetration test in a methodical way Approach Written in Packt's Beginner's Guide format, you can easily grasp the concepts and understand the techniques to perform wireless attacks in your lab. Every new attack is described in the form of a lab exercise with rich illustrations of all the steps associated. You will practically implement various attacks as you go along. Who this book is written for If you are an IT security professional or a security consultant who wants to get started with wireless testing with Backtrack, or just plain inquisitive about wireless security and hacking, then this book is for you. The book assumes that you have familiarity with Backtrack and basic wireless concepts. Book Details Paperback: 220 pages Publisher: Packt Publishing (September 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1849515581 ISBN-13: 978-1849515580 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing (11-05-2011) Security and Quality of Service in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks (20-08-2009) Metasploit: The Penetration Tester's Guide (30-07-2011) Hacking Exposed: Wireless (23-05-2009) Zend Enterprise PHP Patterns (17-09-2009) WordPress 3 Ultimate Security (06-07-2011) Wireless Programming with J2ME: Cracking the Code (23-05-2009) Wireless Networking Based Control (23-02-2011) Wireless Communications, 2nd Edition (18-03-2011) Windows Server 2008 Security Resource Kit (23-05-2009)

Drupal 7 Social Networking Posted: 01 Oct 2011 04:54 AM PDT Book Description Drupal is ideally equipped to serve as a base system for creating a custom social networking site like Facebook or MySpace. While these large social networks have their place, niche social networking websites can help promote businesses, products, projects, and hobbies of any nature. Drupal 7 Social Networking provides careful instructions and clear explanations to take you through the setup and management of your social network site, covering topics from users, to marketing, to maintenance. It will help you create your own social networking site, suitable for whatever audience you choose! Starting from the very basics of both Drupal and Social Networking, right through to more complicated aspects, you will progressively learn how to add to and expand your social networking site and add more features. You will learn how to secure your social network, deploy it on the Internet, and keep it running and well maintained. As social networking sites rely on the participation of their users, this book helps you to structure your site in such a way so that users can easily and enjoyably contribute, thus creating a powerful social network. A complete walkthrough for creating, developing, growing, and maintaining a Social Networking website using Drupal 7 What you will learn from this book : Build a social networking site from the ground up using Drupal 7 Use a combination of features, modules, and simple customization to allow user interaction, contributions, and communication Import content from the Internet to your site using the Aggregator module Create user profiles, set up roles and permissions, and handle security settings Use Drupal’s modular system to create modules to add functionality Customize the look and feel of your site by enabling and installing new themes, ensuring that your site is distinctive Deploy and maintain your social networking site on the Internet using the maintenance mode, reports, and cron to keep everything running smoothly Recover from virus attacks and hacking attempts on your social network by making and maintaining regular backups, in case the worst should happen Promote and market your social network using advertisements, advertising networks, other social networks, and search engine optimization Let your users contribute to the site, from those who wish to add a little content to those who wish to help run the site on a daily basis Approach This book is packed with clear instructions and careful explanations for creating a powerful social networking site using Drupal 7. With each chapter, you add new features and content until your social network is ready to be released to the Internet where it can grow. By the end of this book, you will have a powerful social network which you can either choose to model on the case-study, or create to your own unique design. Who this book is written for This book is aimed at anyone looking to create their own social networking website, including: Businesses – building a social network around a product or service can improve your company profile and increase customer loyalty, while an internal social network gives you employees a place to keep resources, discuss ideas, raise concerns, and keep up to date on company policies. Hobbyists – create a community around your hobbies and interests; create a local or distributed user group. Organizations and charities – raise your profile, promote your events, services, and fundraisers, and get help from the community in organizing them. Families – for large families based across the country or across the globe, keep up to date with everyone, and let everyone know what you are up to. You don’t need any experience of Drupal or PHP to use this book. If you are a Drupal user you will find this book a great way to rapidly tailor an existing installation into a socially orientated website. Book Details Paperback: 328 pages Publisher: Packt Publishing (September 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1849516006 ISBN-13: 978-1849516006 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Drupal 6 Social Networking (06-06-2009) The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 (13-08-2011) Professional Mobile Web Development with WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal (15-06-2011) jQuery and JavaScript in Drupal (Video) (12-07-2010) Front End Drupal: Designing, Theming, Scripting (28-06-2009) Foundation Drupal 7 (26-11-2010) Drupal: The Guide to Planning and Building Websites (22-08-2011) Drupal Web Services (16-12-2010) Drupal Multimedia (10-07-2009) Drupal For Dummies (27-07-2011)

Learning jQuery, 3rd Edition Posted: 01 Oct 2011 04:52 AM PDT Book Description To build interesting, interactive sites, developers are turning to JavaScript libraries such as jQuery to automate common tasks and simplify complicated ones. Because many web developers have more experience with HTML and CSS than with JavaScript, the library’s design lends itself to a quick start for designers with little programming experience. Experienced programmers will also be aided by its conceptual consistency. Learning jQuery Third Edition is revised and updated for version 1.6 of jQuery. You will learn the basics of jQuery for adding interactions and animations to your pages. Even if previous attempts at writing JavaScript have left you baffled, this book will guide you past the pitfalls associated with AJAX, events, effects, and advanced JavaScript language features. Starting with an introduction to jQuery, you will first be shown how to write a functioning jQuery program in just three lines of code. Learn how to add impact to your actions through a set of simple visual effects and to create, copy, reassemble, and embellish content using jQuery’s DOM modification methods. The book will step you through many detailed, real-world examples, and even equip you to extend the jQuery library itself with your own plug-ins. What you will learn from this book : Create interactive elements for your web designs Learn how to create the best user interface for your web applications Use selectors in a variety of ways to get anything you want from a page Make things happen on your webpages with events Add flair to your actions with a variety of animation effects Discover the new features available in jQuery 1.6 in this third update of this popular jQuery book Approach Step through each of the core concepts of the jQuery library, building an overall picture of its capabilities. Once you have thoroughly covered the basics, the book returns to each concept to cover more advanced examples and techniques. Who this book is written for This book is for web designers who want to create interactive elements for their designs, and for developers who want to create the best user interface for their web applications. Basic JavaScript programming and knowledge of HTML and CSS is required. No knowledge of jQuery is assumed, nor is experience with any other JavaScript libraries. Book Details Paperback: 428 pages Publisher: Packt Publishing; 3rd Edition (September 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1849516545 ISBN-13: 978-1849516549 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Test-Driven JavaScript Development (02-10-2010) Learn JavaScript and Ajax with w3Schools (25-02-2011) jQuery For Dummies (15-09-2010) JavaScript Step by Step, 2nd Edition (19-01-2011) Developing Large Web Applications: Producing Code That Can Grow and Thrive (15-03-2010) Beginning Smartphone Web Development (18-01-2010) Applied jQuery: Develop and Design (27-08-2011) WordPress 3.0 jQuery (25-10-2010) The Definitive Guide to Lift: A Scala-based Web Framework (27-06-2009) SilverStripe 2.4 Module Extension, Themes, and Widgets: Beginner's Guide (15-06-2011)

Spring Roo 1.1 Cookbook Posted: 01 Oct 2011 04:49 AM PDT Book Description Spring Roo is an easy-to-use productivity tool for rapidly developing Java enterprise applications using well-recognized frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, AspectJ, Spring Web Flow, Spring Security, GWT, and so on. Spring Roo takes care of creating maven-enabled projects, enterprise application architecture based on your choice of technologies, unit/integration tests based on your choice of testing framework, and so on. The bottom line is that if you’re using Spring, then you must consider using Spring Roo for increased productivity. Spring Roo 1.1 Cookbook brings together a collection of recipes that demonstrate how the Spring Roo developer tool simplifies rapidly developing enterprise applications using standard technologies/frameworks such as JPA, GWT, Spring, Flex, Spring Web Flow, Spring Security, and so on. It introduces readers to developing enterprise applications for the real world using Spring Roo tool. The book starts off with basic recipes to make readers comfortable with using Spring Roo tool. As the book progresses, readers are introduced to more sophisticated features supported by Spring Roo in the context of a Flight Booking application. In a step-by-step by fashion, each recipe shows how a particular activity is performed, what Spring Roo does when a command is executed, and why it is important in the context of the application being developed. Initially, you make a quick start with using Spring Roo through some simple recipes. Then you learn how Spring Roo simplifies creating the persistence layer of an enterprise application using JPA. You are introduced to the various roo commands to create JPA entities, create relationships between JPA entities, create integration tests using Spring TestContext framework, and so on. Following this, the book shows you how Spring Roo simplifies creating the web layer of an enterprise application using Spring Web MVC, Spring Web Flow, and how to create selenium tests for controller objects. Subsequently, we focus on using Spring-BlazeDS, GWT, JSON, and so on. Spring Roo commands that are used to incorporate e-mail/messaging features into an enterprise application are demonstrated next. Finally, we wrap it up with some miscellaneous recipes that show how to extend Spring Roo via add-ons, incorporate security, create cloud-ready applications, remove Spring Roo from your enterprise application, and so on. A fast-paced guide that helps you effectively use Spring Roo for developing enterprise applications What you will learn from this book : Get started with the Spring Roo development tool Create the persistence layer of an application using JPA support in Spring Roo Create web applications using Spring Web MVC, Spring Web Flow, GWT, Flex-BlazeDS, and so on Extend Spring Roo by creating custom add-ons Remove Spring Roo from enterprise applications Migrate existing applications to use Spring Roo Test enterprise applications using Spring’s TestContext framework (for the persistence layer) and Selenium (for web-tier controllers) Get tips on how to effectively use Spring Roo for developing enterprise applications Create applications for Google App Engine using Spring Roo Learn about round-tripping support in Spring Roo Add security using Spring Security support in Spring Roo Approach This is a cookbook full of recipes with the essential code explained clearly and comprehensively. The recipes are organized so well that you will have no problems in using this cookbook as a reference too. Who this book is written for Spring Roo 1.1 Cookbook is for developers new to the Spring Roo tool but with experience developing applications using Spring framework, AspectJ, JPA, GWT, and technologies/frameworks supported by Spring Roo. If you are new to the Spring framework, then it is recommended to refer to a text covering Spring, before reading this Cookbook. Book Details Paperback: 460 pages Publisher: Packt Publishing (September 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1849514585 ISBN-13: 978-1849514583 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Spring Persistence with Hibernate (03-11-2010) Google Web Toolkit 2 Application Development Cookbook (14-12-2010) Getting Started with Roo (05-09-2011) Yii 1.1 Application Development Cookbook (07-09-2011) Yahoo User Interface 2.X Cookbook (14-02-2011) wxPython 2.8 Application Development Cookbook (29-12-2010) Windows PowerShell Cookbook (20-08-2010) Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Cookbook (06-09-2011) The Definitive Guide to Terracotta (30-08-2011) The Android Developer's Cookbook: Building Applications with the Android SDK (25-11-2010)

Microsoft Visual C# 2010: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming, 4th Edition Posted: 01 Oct 2011 04:42 AM PDT Book Description Using engaging examples and a clear, straightforward approach, MICROSOFT VISUAL C# 2010: AN INTRODUCTION TO OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING, FOURTH EDITION guides beginning programmers through developing programs in the C# language. The book provides readers with a strong background knowledge of structured programming, method calling, and parameter passing, all of which are important concepts easily transferable to other programming languages. The Fourth Edition has been written and tested using the latest version of C#, Visual C# 2010, and now offers supplementary video lessons, expanded coverage of methods, and the option to study GUI applications earlier in the text. Table of Contents Preface CHAPTER 1 A First Program Using C# CHAPTER 2 Using Data CHAPTER 3 Using GUI Objects and the Visual Studio IDE CHAPTER 4 Making Decisions CHAPTER 5 Looping CHAPTER 6 Using Arrays CHAPTER 7 Using Methods CHAPTER 8 Advanced Method Concepts CHAPTER 9 Using Classes and Objects CHAPTER 10 Introduction to Inheritance CHAPTER 11 Exception Handling CHAPTER 12 Using Controls CHAPTER 13 Handling Events CHAPTER 14 Files and Streams CHAPTER 15 Using LINQ to Access Data in C# Programs APPENDIX A Operator Precedence And Associativity APPENDIX B Understanding Numbering Systems and Computer Codes APPENDIX C Using The IDE Editor Glossary Index Book Details Paperback: 848 pages Publisher: Course Technology; 4th Edition (August 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 0538479515 ISBN-13: 978-0538479516 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts Programming Applications for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, 3rd Edition (17-02-2011) XNA Game Studio 4.0 Programming: Developing for Windows Phone 7 and Xbox 360 (26-01-2011) Windows System Programming, 4th Edition (26-02-2010) Windows Azure Step by Step (06-06-2011) Visual C# Game Programming for Teens (19-05-2011) Visual C# 2010 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (19-03-2010) Visual C# 2005 Express Edition Starter Kit (21-01-2010) Visual Basic 2010 Programmer's Reference (09-04-2010) Visual Basic 2008 Programmer's Reference (23-08-2009) Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Starter Kit (29-01-2010)

Java Programming, 6th Edition Posted: 01 Oct 2011 04:38 AM PDT Book Description JAVA PROGRAMMING, Sixth Edition provides the beginning programmer with a guide to developing applications using the Java programming language. Java is popular among professional programmers because it can be used to build visually interesting GUI and Web-based applications. Java also provides an excellent environment for the beginning programmer – students can quickly build useful programs while learning the basics of structured and object-oriented programming techniques. Table of Contents Preface CHAPTER 1 Creating Your First Java Classes CHAPTER 2 Using Data CHAPTER 3 Using Methods, Classes, and Objects CHAPTER 4 More Object Concepts CHAPTER 5 Making Decisions CHAPTER 6 Looping CHAPTER 7 Characters, Strings, and the StringBuilder CHAPTER 8 Arrays CHAPTER 9 Advanced Array Concepts CHAPTER 10 Introduction to Inheritance CHAPTER 11 Advanced Inheritance Concepts CHAPTER 12 Exception Handling CHAPTER 13 File Input and Output CHAPTER 14 Introduction to Swing Components CHAPTER 15 Advanced GUI Topics CHAPTER 16 Graphics CHAPTER 17 Applets, Images, and Sound APPENDIX A Working with the Java Platform APPENDIX B Learning About Data Representation APPENDIX C Formatting Output APPENDIX D Generating Random Numbers APPENDIX E Javadoc Glossary Index Book Details Paperback: 952 pages Publisher: Course Technology; 6th Edition (February 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1111529442 ISBN-13: 978-1111529444 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Posts SQL All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition (06-04-2011) Spring 2.5 Aspect Oriented Programming (17-06-2009) Programming Scala (05-10-2009) Programming in Scala, 2nd Edition (19-05-2011) Programming Concurrency on the JVM (13-09-2011) Programming Android (09-08-2011) Practical Clojure (02-06-2010) Object-Oriented Programming and Java, 2nd Edition (15-02-2011) Language Implementation Patterns: Create Your Own Domain-Specific and General Programming Languages (08-02-2010) Killer Game Programming in Java (17-08-2011)

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